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French court finds 10 guilty of cyber-harassing first lady Brigitte Macron

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French court finds 10 guilty of cyber-harassing first lady Brigitte Macron

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From contraception to menopause and IVF: How $25 scripts will reshape women’s health

How emboldened is Trump after Venezuela? Mette Frederiksen tells him to back off over Greenland

When women’s labour is so invisible, it’s not even in the photos

How women leaders have responded to Trump’s strikes on Venezuela and Maduro removal

Prominent Holocaust survivor & Anne Frank’s step sister Eva Schloss dies, aged 96

5 scenarios for a post-Maduro Venezuela — and what they could signal to the wider region

An Indigenous woman has died in custody. It is not an isolated incident, it’s a predictable outcome

A remarkable leader, scientist, mentor and friend: Valé Professor Emma Johnston AO

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Bruce Lehrmann (going back for his hat again) takes defamation fight to Australia’s Highest Court

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Prominent Holocaust survivor & Anne Frank’s step sister Eva Schloss dies, aged 96

5 scenarios for a post-Maduro Venezuela — and what they could signal to the wider region

An Indigenous woman has died in custody. It is not an isolated incident, it’s a predictable outcome

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Albanese government moves to strengthen hate speech laws after Bondi shooting

I helped change Australia’s gun laws after Port Arthur. People power, not politics, delivered the change

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